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5.2 DNS Server Address

DNS (Domain Name System) is for mapping a domain name to its corresponding
IP address and vice versa, for example, the IP address of www.atlantis-land.com
is 204.217.0.2. The DNS server is extremely important because without it, you
must know the IP address of a machine before you can access it. The DNS
server addresses that you enter in the DHCP setup are passed to the client
machines along with the assigned IP address and subnet mask.
There are two ways that an ISP disseminates the DNS server addresses. The first